Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–10 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, wild mushroom risotto, charcuterie and Com te cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
While the Jura is legendary for its oxidative white wines, its cool-climate red wines, particularly Pinot Noir, have captured the hearts of wine lovers worldwide. Introduced to the region from neighboring Burgundy in the Middle Ages, Pinot Noir has found a unique expression in the complex clay and limestone soils of Arbois. Stéphane and Bénédicte Tissot craft their Pinot Noir using strict biodynamic principles, harvesting by hand and fermenting with indigenous yeasts in large wooden vats with minimal sulfur. The wine is aged in oak barrels to allow the pure, vibrant voice of the terroir to speak. This wine captures the wild, untamed spirit of the Jura, offering a delicate yet intensely aromatic profile of red currants, forest floor, and a distinct mineral tension that sets it apart from its Burgundian cousins.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1962 by André and Mireille Tissot and taken over by their son Stéphane alongside his wife Bénédicte in 1990, Domaine Bénédicte & Stéphane Tissot is an iconic benchmark of the Jura region, located in the village of Montigny-lès-Arsures near Arbois, France. A relentless pioneer of organic and biodynamic viticulture, Stéphane transitioned the estate to biodynamics in the early 2000s, championing minimal-intervention cellar techniques and native yeast fermentations to reveal hyper-specific terroirs. The domaine produces an extraordinary array of wines spanning profound single-vineyard Chardonnays from sites like Clos de la Tour de Curon and La Mailloche, energetic Savagnins, traditional sous-voile Vin Jaune, vibrant reds from indigenous Trousseau and Poulsard, and exceptional Crémant du Jura such as Indigène. Celebrated for their mineral intensity, purity, and vibrant tension, the estate's artisanal bottlings have rightfully elevated the global reputation of Jura winemaking.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Pinot Noir
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12.5-13.5%